Quiz of the Day, December 2023

Quiz of the Day, December 31, 2023

How did Hannah first appear to the priest Eli?

a. sad

b. tearful

c. drunk

d. proud

Quiz of the Day, December 30, 2023

Jesus did what at Cana of Galilee?

a. healed the son of a synagogue leader

b. turned water to wine

c. officiated at a wedding

d. called another disciple

Quiz of the Day, December 29, 2023

Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrimage went there for which Thomas?

a. More

b. Aquinas

c. Becket

d. Didymus

Quiz of the Day, December 28, 2023

Where is the assertion, "God is love," found?

a. John

b. Revelation

c. 1 John

d. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, December 27, 2023

Which of the following is not an assumption about the disciple John?

a. he wrote Revelations

b. he was the son of Zebedee

c. he was a fisherman

d. he was the beloved disciple

e. he knew the apostle Paul

a. Quiz of the Day, December 26, 2023

Who was ordained to the ministry of "waiting on tables?"

a. Martha of Bethany

b. Stephen

c. Paul

d. Timothy

e. Dorcas

Quiz of the Day, December 25, 2023

How many Gospels include the story of the Magi?

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. 4

Quiz of the Day, December 24, 2024

Which Gospels have the infancy narratives of Jesus?

a. Matthew and Mark

b. Luke and Mark

c. John and Mark

d. John and Matthew

e. Luke and John

f. Matthew and Luke

g.John and Luke

Quiz of the Day, December 23, 2023

What color of horse is not found in the Book of Revelation?

a. red

b. brown

c. green

d. black

e. white

Quiz of the Day, December 22, 2023

The most "I am" phrases of Jesus are found in which Gospel?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, December 21, 2023

Which of the following is not associated with missionary work in India?

a. Henry Martyn

b. David Livingstone

c. Thomas the Apostle

d. Robert Nobili

e. Francis Xavier

Quiz of the Day, December 20, 2023

Of the following, which is not included in a parable of Jesus?

a. seeds

b. rich man

c. landlord

d. servant

e. poor person

d. Sadducee

Quiz of the Day, December 19, 2023

Which of the following term does not belong in the group?

a. apocalyptic

b. advent

c. eschatology

d. rapture

e. pneumatology

Quiz of the Day, December 18, 2023

Where is Philadelphia mentioned in the Bible?

a. Jude

b. 1 Corinthians

c. Revelations

d. 1 John

Quiz of the Day, December 17, 2023

Where can the originating events of Hanukkah be found in Scripture?

a. in the Hebrew canon Scriptures

b. in the Baptist canon of Scripture

c. in the Catholic and Anglican Bibles

d. in the Apocrypha

e. in two of the above Quiz of the Day, December 16, 2023

In what writings does Jesus liken himself to a mother hen?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

e. Matthew and Luke

f. Mark and John

Quiz of the Day, December 15, 2023

Which of the following location is one the seven churches of Revelation?

a. Thyatira

b. Philippi

c. Corinth

d. Thessalonica 

Quiz of the Day, December 14, 2023

Scholars believe which is the first book of the New Testament to be written?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. 1 Thessalonians

d. 1 Corinthians

e. John

Quiz of the Day, December 13, 2023

Which Gospel includes the Songs of Mary, Zachariah, and Simeon?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, December 12, 2023

About whom was it written that he had hair, white as wool and snow?

a. Moses

b. Jacob

c. the Son of Man

d. John the Divine

Quiz of the Day, December 11, 2023

Which of the following prophets received from God a plumb line as teaching metaphor?

a. Jeremiah

b. Isaiah

c. Amos

d. Micah

Quiz of the Day, December 10, 2023

Which of the following is not true regarding the father of John the Baptist

a. he was a priest

b. he was married to Elizabeth

c. he lost his speech

d. he did not want his son to be named John

e. he composed a song

Quiz of the Day, December 9, 2023

What person was a follower of the teachings of John the Baptist until told about Jesus?

a. Apollo

b. Priscilla

c. Aquila

d. Tychicus

 

Quiz of the Day, December 8, 2023

According to the book of Jude, who contended with devil regarding the body of Moses?

a. Gabriel

b. Ariel

c. Michael

d. Joshua

Quiz of the Day, December 7, 2023

Of the following, who was not baptized when he was elected bishop?

a. Ignatius of Antioch

b. Cyril of Jerusalem

c. Ambrose of Milan

d. Clement of Rome

Quiz of the Day, December 6, 2023

Which is not a name for Nicholas of Myra?

a. Baba Noel

b. Father Christmas

c. Kris Kringle

d. Santa Claus

e. SinterKlaas

f. Père Noël

g. Christmas Daddy

Quiz of the Day, December 5, 2023

What tree or plant did Jesus condemn to have no future fruit?

a. sycamore

b. olive

c. fig

d. grape vine

Quiz of the Day, December 4, 2023

Which of the following prophets is used to explain the significance of John the Baptist?

a. Obadiah

b. Micah

c. Isaiah

d. Jeremiah

Quiz of the Day, December 3, 2023

The first day of the Christian year is

a. January 1

b. First Sunday of Advent

c. Christmas

d. Easter

Quiz of the Day, December 2, 2023

Nicholas Ferrar's Little Gidding became memorialized by what poet?

a. John Donne

b. George Herbert

c. T.S. Eliot

d. Samuel Coleridge

Quiz of the Day, December 1, 2023

Who requested to sit at the right hand of Jesus in his kingdom?

a. all the disciples
b.the sons of Zebedee
c. Peter
d. Andrew

Quiz of the Day, November 2023

Quiz of the Day, November 30, 2023

Who was Simon Peter's brother?

a. James

b. Philip

c. Andrew

d. Thaddaeus

Quiz of the Day, November 29, 2023

Apocalyptic can mean

a. things eschatological

b. referring to the Book of Revelations

c. end of the world

d. an unveiling

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, November 28, 2023

What has America given to the Episcopal calendar of saints?

a. a president saint

b. a senator saint

c. a governor saint

d. king and queen saints

Quiz of the Day, November 27, 2023

What does the Matthean exception refer to?

a. alternate beatitude to Luke

b. alternate Lord's Prayer to Luke

c. divorce permission

d. circumcision

Quiz of the Day, November 26, 2023

The Feast of Christ the King is

a. the Last Sunday after Pentecost

b. the Last Sunday after the Epiphany

c. the First Sunday of Advent

d. the Sunday closest to January 1st

Quiz of the Day, November 25, 2023

The prophet Ezekiel wrote that a shepherd would be set up to feed a future people of Israel.  Who was this promised shepherd?

a. Moses

b. Joshua

c. the Messiah

d. David

Quiz of the Day, November 24, 2023

What did the Maccabees do with the desecrated Temple altar?

a. had the priests do a purification ritual

b. tear it down and build a new one

c. place a menorah on it

d. removed the altar stones from Jerusalem

Quiz of the Day, November 23, 2023

What biblical record to we have of Jesus receiving money?

a. from over turned tables in the Temple

b. from Zacchaeus

c. from the mouth of a fish

d. from Judas the treasurer

Quiz of the Day, November 22, 2023

Of the following, who wrote science fiction?

a. G.K. Chesterton

b. Charles Williams

c. C.S. Lewis

d. Evelyn Underhill

Quiz of the Day, November 21, 2023

The metaphor of Alpha and Omega is used for one seated upon the throne in which biblical book?

a. Psalms

b. Isaiah

c. Daniel

d. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, November 20, 2023

Which nations are organized by Satan for the great battle in the visionary book of Revelation?

a. Assyria and Persia

b. Elam and Medes

c. Greece and Egypt

d. Gog and Magog

Quiz of the Day, November 19, 2023

Who died with a tent peg driven into his skull?

a. Saul

b. Goliath

c. Sisera

d. Ahab

Quiz of the Day, November 18, 2023

The surname of Judah Maccabee means what?

a. the sword

b. the hammer

c. the light

d. the faithful

Quiz of the Day, November 17, 2023

Which of the following books does not refer to the desolating sacrilege?

a. Maccabees

b. Daniel

c. Jude

d. Matthew

e. Mark

Quiz of the Day, November 16, 2023

The great foe of the Maccabees was

a. Alexander the Great

b. Ptolemy

c. Antiochus Epiphanes

d. Darius

Quiz of the Day, November 15, 2023

How many times does the story of the feeding of the multitude appear in the four canonical Gospels?

a. 3 times

b. 4 times

c. 5 times

d. 6 times

Quiz of the Day, November 14, 2023

Of the following, who is the only female judge of Israel?

a. Ruth

b. Rahab

c  Deborah

d. Judith

e. Miriam

Quiz of the Day, November 13, 2023

In which of the following books does Babylon stand as a symbol rather than an actual city?

a. Daniel

b. Ezekiel

c. Jeremiah

d. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, November 12, 2023

Ezra rebuked the men of Judah

a. for not building the walls

b. for not refurbishing the Temple

c. for marrying foreign women

d. for compromising with Sanballat and Tobiah

Quiz of the Day, November 11, 2023

What patron saint of soldiers day of commemoration is on Veterans' Day?

a. Joan of Arc

b. St. Martin of Tours

c. St. Ignatius Loyola

c. St. George

Quiz of the Day, November 10, 2023

What pope is associated with Attila the Hun?

a. Leo the Great

b. Gregory the Great

c. Boniface I

d. Innocent I

Quiz of the Day, November 9, 2023

The king of Persia gave to whom, power beyond the Great River?

a. Nehemiah

b. Zerubbabel

c. Ezra

d. Sanballat

Quiz of the Day, November 8, 2023

What might be called the gateway to the Land of Promise for Joshua and the people of Israel?

a. Mt. Nebo

b. the Red Sea

c. the Jordan River

d. the Dead Sea

Quiz of the Day, November 7, 2023

Nehemiah dedicated

a. the first Temple

b. the second Temple

c. the third Temple

d. the Shiloh Shrine

Quiz of the Day, November 6, 2023

Sanballat accused Nehemiah of wanting to be what?

a. a king of Judah

b. a spy of the Persian

c. a conspirator with the Arabs

d. a spy with the Egyptians

Quiz of the Day, November 5, 2023

The biblical Eutychus is known for what?

a. sleeping during a sermon

b. falling out of a window during a sermon

c. taken for dead during a sermon

d. revived to life after a sermon

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, November 4, 2023

Haman, Tobiah, and Sanballat might be regarded as

a. infamous persons/foes for the Jews

b. helpful people

c. persons who were call God-fearers

d. escapees from Jericho

Quiz of the Day, November 3, 2023

What king sent Nehemiah back to Judah to rebuild the city and Temple?

a. Cyrus

b. Darius

c. Xerxes

d. Artaxerxes 

Quiz of the Day, November 2, 2023

What was the prophet Nehemiah's job in Susa?

a. sommelier secret service for Darius

b. chief counselor to Darius

c. chief rabbi of the Susa synagogue

d. translator for Darius

Quiz of the Day, November 1, 2023

Which writing before the New Testament makes reference to the Son of God placing crowns on the heads of an immortal throng?

a. Psalms

b. Ezekiel

c. Isaiah

d. 2 Esdras

Quiz of the Day, September 2023

Quiz of the Day, September 30, 2023

The archangel Michael is listed in which books of the Bible?

a. Daniel

b. Daniel and Jude

c. Jude and Revelations

d. Daniel, Jude and Revelations

Quiz of the Day, September 29, 2023

"kenosis" refers to

a. omniscience of God

b. Jesus being emptied of divine equality in his earthly life

c. the exaltation of Christ

d. the fullness of time

Quiz of the Day, September 28, 2023

The Greek word from which the word "hypocrite" is derived means

a. fraud

b. phony

c. actor

d. liar

Quiz of the Day, September 27, 2023

What prophet made an axe head float to the surface of the Jordan River?

a. Elisha

b. Elijah

c. Jeremiah

d. Ezekiel

Quiz of the Day, September 26, 2023

Who was the general editor of the Authorized Version of the Bible?

a. King James

b. Lancelot Andrewes

c. John Wycliffe

d. William Tyndale

Quiz of the Day, September 25, 2023

Of the following, who did not experience leprosy?

a. Moses

b. A Pharaoh

c. Gehazi

d. Uzziah

e. Naaman

f.  Job

Quiz of the Day, September 24, 2023

Who in the Bible might have done mouth to mouth resuscitation?

a. Adam

b. Jacob

c. Elisha

d. Paul

Quiz of the Day, September 23, 2023

What was the last request of Elisha for Elijah?

a. for his mantle

b. for a double portion of his spirit

c. to be relieved of his prophetic role

d. to be able to part water

Quiz of the Day, September 22, 2023

Who was the prophet who called down fire from heaven?

a. Nathan

b. Isaiah

c. Jeremiah

d. Elijah

Quiz of the Day, September 21, 2023

What was the evening food of the people of Israel in the wilderness?

a. Manna

b. locusts

c. quail

d. lamb

Quiz of the Day, September 20, 2023

"What is it?" is the name for what biblical food?

a. the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden

b. grapes in the Promised Land

c. Manna in the wilderness

d. Quail in the wilderness

Quiz of the Day, September 19, 2023

What king of Israel pouted when someone refused to sell him their vineyard?

a. Solomon

b. David

c. Ahab

d. Josiah

Quiz of the Day, September 18, 2023

A "Puseyite" might be considered to be

a. Low Church Anglican

b. Evangelical Anglican

c. Latitudinarian

d. High Church Anglican

e. Non-conformist

Quiz of the Day, September 17, 2023

The mantle is not

a. a vestment of succession metaphor

b. what Elijah gave to Elisha before ascending to heaven

c. symbol of the Mosaic office

d. symbol of the prophetic office

Quiz of the Day, September 16, 2023

Who sought to kill Elijah?

a. Ahab

b. Jezebel

c. The king of Judah

d. The king of Syria

e. The prophets of Baal

Quiz of the Day, September 15, 2023

What King of Israel assembled the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel to challenge the prophet Elijah?

a. Ahab

b. Jeroboam

c. Omri

d. Nadab

Quiz of the Day, September 14, 2023

The serpent as a medical symbol derives from

a. Moses and the bronze serpent for healing

b. ancient Greek myth of Asclepius

c. ancient Hittite symbol of healing

d. ancient Summerian  symbol of healing

Quiz of the Day, September 13, 2023

What prophet was fed by birds?

a. Jeremiah

b. Amos

c. Obadiah

d. Elijah

e. Ezekiel

f. Hosea

Quiz of the Day, September 12, 2023

In the Bible, Israel does not mean

a. the name of Jacob

b. the Northern Kingdom of ten tribes

c. a people who escaped from Egypt

d. an appropriated name for the church

e. the place where any Jews resided

Quiz of the Day, September 11, 2023 

Who wrote that "only the weak eat vegetables?"

a. Peter

b. James

c. Paul

d. The Psalmist

e. The writer of the Proverbs

Quiz of the Day, September 10, 2023

What King of Israel made golden calves to worship?

a. Solomon

b. Jeroboam

c. Saul

d. Rehoboam

Quiz of the Day, September 9, 2023

What is the name of the Jewish New Year?

a. Sukkoth

b. Rosh Hashanah

c. Yom Kippur

d. Pesach

Quiz of the Day, September 8, 2023

What King of Israel had to flee to Egypt for protection from King Solomon?

a. Jeroboam

b. Rehoboam

c. Asa

d. Josiah

Quiz of the Day, September 7, 2023

What was blamed for leading the wisest man in the world astray?

a. foreign gods

b. wealth

c. pacts with foreign kings

d. his many foreign wives

Quiz of the Day, September 6, 2023

Of the gifts of the Queen of Sheba given to King Solomon, which gift set a quantity record?

a. quantity of gold

b. quantity of precious stones

c. quantity of spices

d. quantity of frankincense

Quiz of the Day, September 5, 2023

Which of the following biblical book most clearly connects the works of one's life with having faith?

a. Romans

b. Galatians

c. James

d. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, September 4, 2023

Which is not true about the dedication oration of Solomon for the first Temple?

a. foreigners were not welcome the temple

b. the temple would establish the prayer direction for those not at Temple

c. warriors in battle were to pray toward the Temple

d. people in exile should pray toward the Temple

Quiz of the Day, September 3, 2023

In which Gospel does it identify Peter as the one who used a sword to cut off the ear of the temple police arresting Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, September 2, 2023

The City of David might be

a. Zion

b. Jerusalem

c. Bethlehem

d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, September 1, 2023

What lumber from Lebanon was used to build the first Temple?

a. Cedar and acacia

b. Cypress and acacia

c. Cedar and cypress

d. Cedar and gopher wood

Quiz of the Day, July 2023

Quiz of the Day, July 31, 2023

What might John's Gospel use in place of the Transfiguration?

a. Christ as Word

b. Christ as Resurrection

c. Christ as Light

d. Christ as Shepherd

e. Christ as Vine

Quiz of the Day, July 30, 2023

How many years did Jacob have to work for Laban to receive his daughter Rachel hand in marriage?

a.3

b.4

c.7

d.14

Quiz of the Day, July 29, 2023

Who in the biblical story was intentionally cremated to preserve the dignity of the dead person(s)?

a. Lot's wife

b. the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah

c. King Saul

d. the residents of Jericho

Quiz of the Day, July 28, 2023

Which of following is true about the masses composed by Johann Sebastian Bach?

a. as a Catholic, he composed them for the Catholic liturgy

b. as a Lutheran he composed all for Lutheran liturgical use

c. as a Lutheran and musician, he composed for the mixed Lutheran/Catholic environment

d. as a Lutheran, he forbade the use of his music in Catholic parishes

Quiz of the Day, July 27, 2023

What is the location of Endor known for?

a. the place of a famous battle

b. the place of King Saul's wizard

c. the cave where David visited Saul at night

d. the home of Uriah and Bathsheba

Quiz of the Day, July 26, 2023

What were the names of former husbands of King David's wives?

a. Uriah

b. Nabal

c. Adriel

d. all of the above

e. a and b

f. b and c

Quiz of the Day, July 25, 2023

How many possible Jameses could be referred to in the New Testament?

a. 3

b. 6

c. 4

d. 7

e. 8

Quiz of the Day, July 24, 2023

Which devotional classics has been translated into more languages than all books except the Bible?

a. Pilgrim's Progress

b. The Imitation of Christ

c. The Interior Castle

d. The Practice of the Presence of God

Quiz of the Day, July 23, 2023

The "Song of Moses" might be better called

a. The Song of Aaron

b. The Song of the Red Sea

c. The Song of Miriam

d. The Song Sinking Chariots

Quiz of the Day, July 22, 2023

Of the following, who was the first apostle of the resurrection?

a. Mary Magdalene

b. Peter

c. the disciple whom Jesus loved

d. angelic humanoid figure at the tomb of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, July 21, 2023

Which of the following would be David's chief ritual fault?

a. he used Goliath's sword

b. he danced naked in front of a crowd

c. he married Bathsheba

d. he ate the bread of Presence

Quiz of the Day, July 20, 2023

Of persons on the calendar of Episcopal saints, whom of the following was not at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 which dealt with women's right, abolition, and temperance?

a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b. Sojourner Truth

c. Harriet Ross Tubman

d. Amelia Bloomer

e. Frederick Douglass

Quiz of the Day, July 19, 2023

Who did David love as his "own life?"

a. Bathsheba

b. Samuel

c. Jonathan

d. Michal

e. Absalom

f.  Abigail

Quiz of the Day, July 18, 2028

David married the daughter of King Saul whose name was

a. Bathsheba

b. Tamar

c. Michal

d. Abigail

Quiz of the Day, July 17, 2023

Why did Jacob leave his home and travel to Haran?

a. to find a wife

b. to buy some livestock

c. to see angels in a dream

d. to escape his angry brother

Quiz of the Day, July 16, 2023

What ministry of Jesus is not explicit in the Gospel of John?

a. walking on water

b. multiplication of loves

c. casting out demons

d. healing blind person

Quiz of the Day, July 15, 2023

The sling shot wielding shepherd boy David took how many stones to fire at the Philistine Goliath?

a. one

b. two

c. three

d. four

e. five

Quiz of the Day, July 14, 2023

According to Mark's Gospel, what happened to Jesus after his baptism?

a. he began his public ministry

b. he went to Jerusalem

c. he made statements about the destruction of the Temple

d. he was driven to the wilderness to be tempted

Quiz of the Day, July 13, 2023

Which role was not David's for Saul before his battle with Goliath?

a. shepherd for Saul's flock

b. armor bearer

c. musician

d. being one in Saul's good favor

Quiz of the Day, July 12, 2023

What was the position of Cornelius?

a. Prefect

b. Centurion

c. Captain

d. Publican

Quiz of the Day, July 11, 2023

Benedict's Rule was most influenced by

a. the Psalms

b. St. Antony of the Desert

c. Athanasius

d. The Rule of the Master

Quiz of the Day, July 10, 2023

Which of the following is not true?

a. Saul was God's messiah for Israel

b. Saul was rejected as God's for Israel

c. Saul's son became the second king of Israel

d. Saul's son Jonathan supported David's kingship

Quiz of the Day, July 9, 2023

Where does the phrase "weeping and gnashing of teeth" occur in the Bible?

a. Genesis

b. Revelation

c. Psalms

d. the parables of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, July 8, 2023

For eating what was Jonathan under the curse of his father Saul?

a. grasshoppers

b. honey

c. Philistine lamb

d. figs from Philistine

Quiz of the Day, July 7, 2023

Who was David's best friend?

a. Samuel

b. Bathsheba

c. Abigail

d. Jonathan

Quiz of the Day, July 6, 2023

Rebekah was the wife of 

a. Moses

b. Isaac

c. Jacob

d. Joseph

Quiz of the Day, July 5, 2023

Which of the following is not true regarding the The Song of Solomon, aka Song of Songs, or the Canticles?

a. it is an erotic love poem

b. it includes the name of God

c. it does not mention God

d. it is read as an allegory by both Jewish and Christian commentators

Quiz of the Day, July 4, 2023

Isaac married

a. his first cousin

b. his first cousin, once removed

c. his first cousin, twice removed

d. his first cousin, thrice removed

Quiz of the Day, July 3, 2023

Who wrote the laws and duties of kingship for Israel?

a. Moses

b. Solomon

c. David

d. Samuel

Quiz of the Day, July 2, 2023

The root meaning of messiah comes from

a. presenting of mace to the king

b. pouring of oil

c. ritual water purification

d. the divine rights of the king

Quiz of the Day, July 1, 2023

What Episcopal priest did ground breaking legal work that was used by Thurgood Marshall in his judicial rulings?

a. William Porcher DuBose
b. Pauli Murray
c. John E. Hines
d. Absalom Jones